My TMJ symptoms are strictly fibro related. My dentist saw no sign of teeth grinding and no jaw misalignments. The one thing I'll do when I have that pain is massaging the area. When my overall muscle pain increases, my jaw pain comes back.

I feel your pain....literally!

I have been diagnosed with TMJ also. I've been to the dentist to get crowns on the teeth I broke while clenching and all is well there. But my TMJ is getting worse the longer I have FM.

About 2 weeks ago I awoke with such pain in the back of my head that I was unable to look up or open my mouth wide. The doc said its TMJ again. Just another horrible thing that comes along with FM.

I've tried the teeth guards and they didn't work for me. First I tried the cheap kind that you can buy in the drugstore. I chewed thru those in about a week. Then I bought a very expensive one the made special for my mouth and woke up choking on it.

I was going to say I think it might be the fibro that's causing the gum pain. I've been having a bunch of gum pain recently, too, and that's all I can figure it is. It almost feels like I've been eating a bunch of acidic stuff or something, but it's been going on for a few weeks. Really annoying.

we all have a formof TMJ, if you do manual dtreches inside mouth it helps
"put right thumb in mouth & place it between the joints of the jaw w/ pointer finger underneath ear where jaw joins= apply pressure w/thumb inside pointer outside hold for as long as you can w/as much pressure
then do other side or i use both hands on ea side @ same times must do often to get release then atleast once aday

also a bite splint while sleeping or doind any strenious job
& don't hold teeth together keep mouth relaxed w/teehing not touching when your mouth is closed!
donot chew gum or ice or anything hard!

this also is good for popping jaws

ps.... also open mouth often very slowly like you are yawning this stretches the scapila or what ver that muscle is that runs along/under jaws & ears!


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I remember having TMJ since I was a child and I love to chew gum which really doesn't help my cause.Fibro loves company !

missunshine thank you SO much for that! I don't have classic TMJ but my jaw locks up and I have pain that feels like a muscle spasm on one side. I'm going to try this today!

Chewing gum made my gum pain better, but my jaw pain worse. My dentist said to stopping chewing gum or anything else chewy. I'm so happy that this pain seems to be fibro related. Yet another sort of pain to deal with. Thanks for the info about different kinds of stretching, that does help some and I'll take all the help I can get!
PeaceN2You, funny you should mention your jaw locking up. My Jaw used to do that as a kid; I could only open it a little bit, when it happened.

i had physical therpy for three yrs 3zawk & when ever my jaw wpuld pop or i'd get a headache they would do this & now i do it everyday or i would be jumping off a bridge!
Crystal= as you said every little bit helps us survive anothr day!
remember when up set or just doing things thru out day =don't let teeth touch ea other can keep mouth closed just don't let teeth =keep a litle space between them ,it helps releive tightnes in jaw! cause your slightly streching jaw muscle!


or push tongue up to roof of mouth & press, this is good for neck aches/head aches

healing prayers & angels for all
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paula